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Pippa Middleton ‘coy’ over new book

Celebrate by Pippa Middleton arose from her work for Party PiecesDavid Loftus/Penguin Books /PA

Of all the accusations that can be levelled against Pippa Middleton, the one that is perhaps the hardest to swallow is that she is a shy retiring thing who should really get out more.

Yes, that Pippa. The young woman who is photographed every time she opens her front door, who in the US is probably more famous than the Queen, and who landed a £400,000 book deal on the strength of having a famous sister and a nice bottom.

Yet, despite Ms Middleton having risen to a point of stratospheric celebrity without ever having achieved anything of note, said anything interesting, or indeed done anything other than exist, this week the world has been asked to believe that she is hiding her light under…